tailieunhanh - ECONOMYUSA IN BRIEF phần 3

1% một mình thu được 16,3% của tất cả các thu nhập, gấp đôi tỷ lệ của năm 1960-năm 1970. Trong khi thu nhập tăng lên cho tất cả các hộ gia đình Mỹ, lợi ích lớn nhất cho nhóm thu nhập cao nhất. "60% hộ gia đình có lợi nhuận dưới 10% trên thực tế giữa năm 1986 và 2005 | 2006GDP per capita . dollars ppp purchasing power parity 46 47 percent. The top 1 percent alone earned percent of all income twice the proportion of the 1960s-1970s. While income went up some for all . households the biggest gains went to the group of top earners. The bottom 60 percent of households have seen gains of less than 10 percent in real terms between 1986 and 2005 while incomes for the top quintile have risen percent and those for the top 5 percent have risen 49 percent the Council on Competitiveness says. What is the reason for this two-tier labor market The prevailing view is that those at the bottom lack the education or skills of those at the top. Struggling to grapple with technological change and to compete against low-wage workers elsewhere in the global economy they fail to get comparable pay raises and other benefits. Yet the statistics conceal dynamic changes going on in income mobility the incomes of many Americans rise and fall over time. From 1989 to 1998 for example 47 percent of households in the bottom fifth moved up into one of the other groups and 47 percent of those in the top fifth moved down. Among all households about 60 percent moved up or down from one group to another over those years. Still . policy makers recognize the potential damage to the economy from stagnant incomes for people at the bottom. If we did not place some limits on the downside risks to 48 individuals affected by economic change Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a 2007 speech the public at large might become less willing to accept the dynamism that is so essential to economic progress. Americans have long held ambivalent feelings about the rich and famous. Aggressive businessmen have at different times been praised as captains of industry and scorned as robber barons. These days some of the wealthiest of the wealthy are celebrities in entertainment and sports supported by a public willing to pay for their unique star qualities.